Category: ALRC AT THE UN

BANGLADESH: Criminalisation of torture goes hand in hand with institutionalisation

40th Session - March 2019, ALRC AT THE UN, Bangladesh, Written Submissions February 20, 2019February 20, 2019 Admin 0 Comments

A Written Submission to the 40th Regular Session of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre The United Nations Human Rights Council’s faulty electoral system has adopted Bangladesh as a member of the highest global rights body from 2019 to 2021 despite the State’s deliberate failure to fully cooperate with the Council. Bangladesh’s re-election to the Council has taken place at a time when the country’s government is hiding its catastrophic domestic human rights records behind the showcase of accommodating the Rohingya refugees, who fled to escape a systemic genocide in Myanmar. The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) has been consistently submitting analytical documentations to […]

INDIA: Country must bring its missing children back

40th Session - March 2019, India, Written Submissions February 20, 2019February 20, 2019 Admin 0 Comments

A Written Submission to the UN Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource CentreI Recently, Aawaj, a partner organisation of the Asian Legal Resource Centre, in India along with Madhya Pradesh Police busted a multi state child-sale racket and helped rescuing many children sold to different families. The bust, sadly, exposes only the tip of India’s human trafficking problem with children being its worst victim. They are trafficked for various reasons including forcing them into child labour, commercial sex work and for forced marriage, domestic work, and forced begging. Though there are various reasons why so many children go missing in India, destitution is one of the most important […]